THE NEW YORKER day Donizetti performances are com- mon. It was Maria Callas, above all, who brought his serious works besides "Lucia" back into esteem and showed the world how much virtue "Anna Bolena" and "Poliuto" contain. Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, and Montserrat Caballé set other serious operas of his before wide publics. And they fed those publics' appetite for novelty without newness. I doubt whether Donizetti will ever again- well, for a long time, at any rate-be as lightly dismissed as he was in the first half of our century. Enough work has been done to demonstrate that there is more than prima-donna fodder in his scores. Nevertheless, those scores call imperatively for prima don- nas; approximate and unstylish perfor- mances won't do. Unless some new stars of magnitude arrive, singers who refine natural endowment by careful study, it cannot be long before his works figure less prominently in the international repertory. -ANDREW PORTER FUR. THER. EVENTS Perfect Marriage T HE performance of baroque mu- sic on instruments of the period, using the techniques and the interpre- tative language that the composers in- tended, has become widespread here and in Europe during the last decade. In the wake of that revival has come a realIzation that the same approach may be applied to the classical reper- tory: recent landmarks have included the Esterhazy Quartet's recorded ac- counts (on Telefunken) of Mozart string quartets; Malcolm Bilson's per- formances and recordings (Titanic and Nonesuch) of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven using reproductions of eighteenth-century pianos; and the Academy of Ancient Music's uneven but generally accomplished versions (Olseau-Lyre) of Mozart symphonies. In Sweden this summer, I heard for the first time a Mozart opera, "Le Nozze di Figaro," performed with a correctly sized orchestra of original instruments in an appropriate opera house; the result was, musically, a startling success. The court theatre at Drottningholm (fifty minutes by boat from Stockholm) has long been known as a uniquely well- preserved eighteenth-century theatre. Not long after Gustav III was assassi- nated at his ballo in maschera in 1792, the flourishing theatre was closed, and it lay unused and unmodernized until r--------------------------- I I I I I' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Wherever the winters are cold, with temperatures in the teens" I I and uwind-chill factors" even lower, people are talking about I Damart Underwear. I I And no wonder! Damart is the unique underwear that keeps you I I I amazingly warm, dry and comfortable no matter how cold it gets, no I matter how hard the wind blows. No I matter how long you stay out! You II I I have to run your fingers over ft I I Damart Thermolactyl to discover I I how soft it is! You'll be thrilled at <1" I I Damart's light weight that lets I I you move so easily. ,...,. " t I I Damart does this with a new'.' '.... I I miracle fabric- Thermolactyl. It's knitted to let perspiration I out! Nothing else does this like I Damart! You can wear I Damart indoors too, and turn I your thermostat down into I the 60's. You'll feel per- I fectly comfortable and I enjoy dramatic savings in home heating costs. I Damart is so comfortable I that the Mt. Everest climb- I ing expedition wears it So I does the Chicago Bears I Football Club, New Eng- I land Patriots and Philadel- i (' I phia Eagles 'o" I Our free color catalog I tells the full Damart Ther- ^" J I molactyl story and displays ?'! the whole Damart line for '-I I men and women, including - I I tall sizes. Send for your ",...-; I I FREE copy now! " ,.z- ...,. , ::. I I I I THE PROOF IS IN THE WEARING! I I I I I I I r; = =:==:-' I I Fill out and send to: I I I DAMART, Dept. 12841 I I P1 t 1811 Woodbury Ave. /.ø I Portsmouth, N.H. 03805 I I I YES! Rush me your FREE DAMART Catalog. . . I want to enJoy the I I Thermawear fantastic warmth of Thermolactyl Underwear, a DAMART exclusive. (I I I understand there is no obligation) I I WHEN IN THE BOSTON I PRINT NAME I I AREA, VISIT OUR PORTSMOUTH, N.H. I I I STORE (603) 431-4700 ADDRESS L________.L :. _ ___ _s:::.. _ _.::.:. ::.::. J / 177 j . to t$ .. I J I I ,'1